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    • Machine Learning
    • Numerical Analysis

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    • Complex gradient methods are prevalent in learning theory for optimizing real-valued functions.
    • The impact of complex stepsizes in these methods remains largely unexplored.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To comprehensively analyze complex gradient learning methods (CGLMs) utilizing complex stepsizes.
    • To investigate the effects of complex stepsizes on search space, convergence, and dynamics near critical points.

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of CGLMs with complex stepsizes.
    • Extension of the Barzilai-Borwein method to the complex domain for adaptive stepsize derivation.
    • Numerical example for validation.

    Main Results:

    • Demonstration of complex stepsizes' superiority over real stepsizes in approximating Hessian information.
    • Characterization of convergence properties and dynamics near critical points for CGLMs with complex stepsizes.

    Conclusions:

    • Complex stepsizes offer advantages in complex gradient learning methods.
    • Adaptive complex stepsizes derived from the Barzilai-Borwein method enhance optimization performance.